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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Sweat is Fat Crying

None of us
like discomfort. We even come up with clichés to explain it away.

Navy SEALS
talk about, “The only easy day was yesterday.” Marines say, “Pain is just
weakness leaving the body.” I saw a great T-shirt in a gym recently: “Sweat is
fat crying.”

So often we
want to simply ignore or rush by and through moments of discomfort because they
are….well, uncomfortable.

But, what
if we acknowledge moments of discomfort as portals of understanding? What if,
instead of looking at pain as weakness leaving the body (or our heart), we
acknowledge it as the body or heart telling us, “There’s something here you
need to look at more closely.”

That takes
courage; courage to move closer to the pain in order to understand it. Instead
of hiding it or covering it up you bring it out into the light and roll it
around and look at it and talk to it….and you ask, “What are you?” “Why are you
here?” “Where’d you come from?” “Where are you going?” “What can I learn from
you?”

Whether the
pain is in our personal or professional lives it’s here to teach us some
something. And, it can’t teach us if it’s pushed away or locked in a box.

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Mike Collins is president of The Perfect Workday Company, an information company based in The Research Triangle Region of North Carolina. He presents 100+ programs a year for organizations such as IBM, American Express, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals and The John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School and Center.